Term 4

We've battled through the snow and dressed up as characters from Julia Donaldson's 'Room on the Broom' for our celebration of World Book Day. In literacy we've been writing our own versions of the story from the perspective of a different character, modernising the characters (The Witch and the Cat-Nav), writing the biography of the broom and creating several recipes for the potion to create the new and improved broom! In maths we've been creating our own word problems based on our book to swap with the other year 6 class. I wonder who will devise the most intriguing puzzles and the most impossible ones!!

World Book Day!

We've had a verybusy start to Term 4!!

The week started with more exploration of what is most of the class's favourite maths subject at the moment - ALGEBRA!!! Along with finding lots of possibilities to solve 2 unknowns we also solved 2-step algebraic formulae by making domino loops (photos below). In literacy, we've just begun to explore explanation texts and have been researching how penguins adapted to their cold Antarctic environment linking to our new science topic of 'Evolution and Inheritance' (cross-curricular Mr Webster!).

But it's not all been about maths and literacy! In French we had great fun recapping the names of the continents (in French) and placing them on a world map. Following that, we looked at the main rivers of the world, practiced saying them (again in French) and then came the really tricky part: putting them under the correct continent!! Even Miss Brock got herself confused with where the Congo needed to go!! Some of our photos are below or can be seen in our books.

Friday afternoon however turned out to be the best - and messiest - afternoon so far! The day before we learned about how earthquakes occur, the damage they can cause and how architects are looking to build earthquake-proof buildings before designing our own earthquake-proof buildings to be constructed out of marshmallows and straws. Which is what we used this afternoon to get into such a mess!! We built our buildings (with varying degrees of success) and then came the moment of truth - would the building withstand an earthquake? There was only one thing to do - get a large slab of jelly and SHAKE IT!!!! Some of the constructions actually survived so whilst they might not all have been the most attractive, they did at least fulfill the brief! Well done everyone. However, EVERYTHING ended up covered in sticky blobs of marshmallows and a crew of people were needed just to clean the scissors after our experiments as well as bin all the sticky newspapers, straws and blobs of jelly - Miss Brock says a big thank you to everyone for helping!